Cindy Behmer, Lecturer in Music and Chamber Music, teaches oboe
at UC Davis and California State University, Sacramento. Dr.
Behmer performs regularly with numerous organizations in Northern
California and Nevada, including Sacramento Philharmonic and
Opera, Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra, Broadway at Music
Circus, Stockton Symphony, Modesto Opera, Reno
Philharmonic, and Oakland Symphony.
Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, University of Michigan
Percussionist Christopher Froh specializes in
promoting and influencing the creation of new music through
critically acclaimed performances and dynamic lectures. To date,
he has premiered over 150 chamber and solo works by composers
from 17 countries. His collaborations include some of the most
significant composers of the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, including Chaya Czernowin, David
Lang, Steve Mackey, John Adams, George Crumb, Liza Lim, Matthias
Pintcher, and Keiko Abe.